The National Weather Service has warned that bitterly cold wind chills could result in hypothermia or frostbite.
Once wind chill values reach -20°, it only takes 30 minutes or less for frostbite to set in. Surprisingly, humidity does not ...
In this Weather Wednesday we look into how the term 'wind chill' came to be and how it has evolved since then.
We’re not breaking records, but it’s been several years since Western New York has experienced such cold conditions.
The NWS uses computer modeling to "provide an accurate, understandable, and useful formula" to calculate wind chill. According to the NWS, the index calculates wind speed at five feet off the ...
The National Weather Service’s formula to calculate wind chill is: 35.74 + 0.6215T – 35.75(V0.16) + 0.4275T(V0.16). Where “T” represents air temperature in Fahrenheit and “V ...
First Alert Weather chief meteorologist Steve Beylon explains the wind chill chart in the video above. The National Weather Service changed the formula based on experiments measuring actual skin ...